Most people have no idea how large the problem truly is.
Teen Girls offer sex to earn pocket money!
Increasing numbers of young girls in Singapore are offering sex for sale on Internet Chatrooms, shrugging the transaction off without any remorse or fear of AIDS. Although the situation here is less dire than in Japan, counselors and social workers cite cases of girls as young as 13 having no qualms over paid sex to obtain pocket money. They blame the nonchalant attitude on neglectful parents, the lack of stigma on losing one’s virginity, the pervasive message of one-night stands on television and advertisements that encourage instant gratification.
Internet chatrooms make it easy for girls to befriend teenage boys or men, “The thinking of some girls is that since they are doing it, they might as well get something out of it,” she was quoted as saying.
Often they want to buy things their parents cannot afford: mobile phones, the latest fashions or recreational gadgets. “With so much material temptations around them and so much desire for instant gratification, sex for money is inevitable.
There are no figures available on the trend, but hotline calls from girls asking if it is all right to have sex for money have quadrupled in the last two years. A 15-year-old girl who used chatrooms to settle her boyfriend’s debts by having paid sex with three men.
The court was told that a 14-year-old girl who needed money to pay bills had sex with at least five men. They were convicted of having sex with a girl younger than 16.
Counselors urge parents to start building bonds when their children are in primary school instead of waiting until their teens. “It’s very tough to get into their world by the time they reach 13 or 14”.
There was a case in 2008 where a Singaporean girl posted on her Blog that she would have sex with guys to help pay school cost so it seems that besides the internet chatrooms the girls are using the internet to reach out to even people.
In the online ads for Singapore (June 26 2008) where you can find many ads of girls offering services in exchange for money, one ad has 2 girls (both 17 years of age) where a guy could have both of them at the same time for a price of S$1,600 for a 2 hour session, while this is the most expensive ads I found must where in the S$250 range for an hour or maybe 90 minutes.
